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Title: Aspects of vortices and hyperbolic monopoles
Author: Cockburn, Alexander Hugh
ISNI:       0000 0004 5355 8518
Awarding Body: Durham University
Current Institution: Durham University
Date of Award: 2015
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Abstract:
This thesis discusses BPS monopoles in hyperbolic space and BPS vortices in the presence of magnetic impurities. We prove explicit formulae for the spectral curve and rational map of a JNR-type hyperbolic monopole, and we use these to study some Platonic examples as well as some new 1-parameter families analogous to Euclidean monopole scattering. Explicit fields and Braam-Austin data for axial hyperbolic monopoles of a particular mass are derived using a correspondence to 1-monopoles, and this data is deformed to give new 1-parameter families. Numerical techniques are used to study the effect of magnetic impurities on vortices on a flat background. Analytic results for vortices with magnetic impurities are found by adapting previous results on vortices on the hyperbolic plane and the 2-sphere.
Supervisor: Not available Sponsor: Not available
Qualification Name: Thesis (Ph.D.) Qualification Level: Doctoral
EThOS ID: uk.bl.ethos.650202  DOI: Not available
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